How to Migrate SharePoint Permissions Easily?

Aftab Alam
Updated On - 12 Apr 2019

If you ask that if SharePoint allows migrating the SharePoint permissions, then in a single word the answer would be, Yes. But before jumping to migrate the permissions, you must get familiar with the multiple types of permissions a SharePoint environment has. There are user permissions, permissions levels, groups permissions, site permissions, and even personal permissions.

It is beneficial to get complete information about these permissions and then plan your migration method.

Default Permissions Levels

Default Permissions levels are various permissions which authorize a user to perform multiple actions on the objects. Here is a brief list of default permissions levels –

Note: A user can customize the permission settings for the initial five levels. To change the permission levels for Limited Access and Full Control, you can make individual permissions unavailable for a complete web application.

User permissions

User permissions are further categorized into three categories – list permissions, site permissions, and personal permissions.

List permissions

Some of the prominent list permissions are:

Permission

Permissions Included

Description

Manage Lists

Edit,
Design, Manage Hierarchy

User can create and
delete lists, add or remove columns or views of a list

Override List Behaviors

Design, Full Control

User can check a
document for another user and can read/edit their terms

Add Items

Edit,
Design, Full Control

User can add items
lists, and add documents to
libraries

Delete Versions

Contribute Edit, Design, Full Control

User can delete
previous versions of list items or documents

Create Alerts

Read,
Edit, Design, Full Control

User can create alerts

View Application Pages

Full
Control

User can view
application pages and enumerate lists

Site Permissions

Site Permissions are applied to site items. Some important permissions of them are the following:

Personal permissions are attached to single objects and items in the SharePoint.

Permission

Permissions Included

Description

Manage Personal Views

Contribute, Edit, Full Control

User can create, change, and delete personal views of lists

Add/Remove Personal Web
Parts

Contribute, Edit, Full Control

User can add/remove personal web parts on a web part page

Update Personal Web
Parts

Contribute, Edit, Full Control

User can update Web Parts

How to migrate SharePoint Permissions

After gaining complete information of various SharePoint permissions, it become easy to migrate permissions. But due to lack of a proper manual method to migrate the permissions, you need to take assistance of a professional tool. Kernel Migrator for SharePoint reduces the complexities to manage permission migration and directly migrate the Permissions along with respective data.

Using Kernel Migrator for Sharepoint, you can migrate complete sites, lists, and libraries from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, SharePoint 2010 to 2016, and SharePoint 2013 to 2016. After selecting the SharePoint-to-SharePoint migration, you can check the Migrate Permissions option.

Note: If you have checked the Migrate Permissions, then you can also check the second option of Remap Users/Groups. It will help you to map SharePoint accounts.

Click Add New Mapping button and add Source User Name and Destination User Name in the respective boxes. Then click OK.

Finally, you can see that the source and the destination are selected to migrate the permissions directly.

Conclusion

If you do not migrate the permissions along with SharePoint data, then you will need to assign new permissions after migration. It will take time and energy of SharePoint administrators. If you want to avoid this situation, take the services of Kernel Migrator for SharePoint. This SharePoint migration tool can be used to upgrade or downgrade the SharePoint platform and also to migrate data from Windows file system to Sharepoint, from public folder to SharePoint, and from file system to Google Drive/OneDrive for business.